2015-03-31T22:11:42ZFacing Off: A Comparative Analysis of Obama and Romney Facebook Timeline Photographshttp://hdl.handle.net/1957/47409
Facing Off: A Comparative Analysis of Obama and Romney Facebook Timeline Photographs
Goodnow, Trischa
Social media sites have become the new battleground in U.S. presidential politics. In helping to create an identifiable image for candidates, photographs on Facebook have become a convenient outlet for displaying both advertising and candid images of the candidate. While scholars have begun to recognize the impact of photographs on political campaign, Grabe and Bucy (2009) have identified potential frames that news photographs enable campaigns to use in hopes of casting candidates in a particular light. This essay utilizes a close semiotic analysis in order to understand how internet images convey meaning that helps to create those frames. The essay concludes with a discussion of the utility of semiotic analysis in understanding campaign images and the potential for internet images for framing campaigns.
This is an author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published article is copyrighted by Sage and can be found at: http://abs.sagepub.com/.
2013-11-01T00:00:00ZThe Effacement of Post-9/11 Orphanhood: Re-reading the Harry Potter Series as a Melancholic Rhetorichttp://hdl.handle.net/1957/35549
The Effacement of Post-9/11 Orphanhood: Re-reading the Harry Potter Series as a Melancholic Rhetoric
Nguyen, Kim Hong
Contrary to critics and scholars interested in the series’ therapeutic value, Harry Potter encourages post-9/11 subjects to neither heal nor mourn. Instead of taking up the potential pain and transformation in realizing and coming to terms with the deaths of his parents, Harry’s reattachment to the institution precludes his abilities to mourn constructively and his orphanhood effectively gets effaced over the course of the series. This article suggests that the therapeutic value ascribed to Harry Potter indicates a hope that it will serve as a pedagogical device to produce loyal, patriotic citizen-subjects that will hold on to rather than mourn loss.
This is the publisher’s final pdf. The published article is copyrighted by the author and published by University of Iowa and can be found at: http://ir.uiowa.edu/poroi/.
2011-01-01T00:00:00Z